The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-06-30
PERSONAL.

Mr.. Bancroft keeps eight type writers busy.
The statue of LinnRus is to be erected in
Chicago replica of that in Stockholm.
Governor Bartlett, of California, is steadily
regaining health, though he is not yet able to
attend to business.
NJ. Menier, head of the great chocolate
manufacturing house of France, is making a
tour through this country
Thomas Ochitree has been given a post
office in Indiana. He is not Col. Thomas
Porterhouse Ochiltree, however.
The presidency of Adelebert college at
Cleveland O.. has been offered to Professor
Herbert 3. Adams of the Johns Hopkins
university. Of Baltimore.
Mr.. How.,.s John is to enter Harvard
next term fiIe Young man at first intended
to study architecture at the Paris School of
Fine Arts, but changed his mind.
Minnie Hauck's father was q German and
a shoemaker, III the most straitened circum-
stances Her voice early attracted the at
tention of one of New Yorl1's richest men,
who had it cultivated.
Col. Daniel Lamont got his title by Presi-
dent, then Governor Cleveland, by appoint
ing Kim To position on his staff, carrying with
it the honorary rank OF colonel. Daniel pre-
vious TO that was reporter on The Albany
Argus.
Philfp-D Armour is pretty good man to
have for f;tther he son who lately came
out of college has been taken into partnership
and fitted out with q little bank account of
his own to the tune of 81, 0o0.0oo.
'sDan'' Rice. of Cincinnati, the veteran
Snowman has just married Mrs Robinson,
one of the wealthiest ranch owners i'll Lavaca
county, Tex. Rice is her third husband. He
is something over 73 years old. while she is 40
Gen. Lew Wallace has been lawyer, soldier,
politician, diplomatist, painter and author.
A recent writer says that his ben Hur," as
historical romance, is greater than "Ivan-
hoe" and u work of the Imagination greater
than the ''Count of Monte Cristo"
Near Rumford Corner, in Maine, a gentle
man riding on a blackboard overlook rather
weary looking gentleman and lady on the
highway, whom he invited to ride. The lady
took a seat beside the proprietor of the team
and the gentleman got on behind. The driver
was much surprised when he arrived at the
public house in the village to hear the man on
behind accosted as Governor Long.
Among the distinguished. authors auto
graphs" now on sale in New York three
of the love letters of Keats to Fanny Browne.
"Ther value is hard to estimate" the cata-
logue says, "for each letter is unique in
itself, displaying the tender sensibihty and
paSSlOnate love VI LIE lilSiu poCo Will
out reserve" In the absence of any definite
data by which to gauge their value, they are
priced at S75, S125 and $50 respectively.
jay Gould's health has not improved. He
is still obliged to let business alone. His in
Inmates insist that he he no longer troubled
with insomnia, and there is an earnest effort
to give currency to the idea he is no longer
a sick man. But the fact remains that he is
far from being we'll His office desk is piled
up with business that he is neglecting for the
simple reason that he does not feel equal to
the task of dispatching it. His life may not
be in danger, but he is sick mar all that.n TO